The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A LONG ISLAND RACE HORSE got loose at night,
went out to a race track, and run two hat-mlle
heats for the fun of the thing and then returned
to the stable to be rubbed down.
GLASS DOLLARS, dangerous counterfeit, are
bothering tradesmen in a New York precinct.
Glass gives ring to the false metal The glass
dollar is brittle and may easily be broken WIN
hammer.
AT SANTA Cruz, CAL, lately, two large New
| foundland dogs annoyed children in bathing by
| continually dragging them from the water, evil
| IDENTIFY under the impression that the youngsters
| were drowning.
| Rev AND MISS MARIAN MURDOCH, pastor OF the
| Unitarian church of Humboldt, Kan, has re-
| ceved the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from
| the Meadville pa Theological Seminary She Is
| u years Of age and breaches eloquently.
OLD BEN DAVIS lived alone in a West Virginia
wilderness, and some ono passed by few days
ago and told him ne had been left fortune of
| $4,000 III England Next day some one went to
| look fol him and found him hanging to tree.
! A TENNESSEE farmer whose land was under
mortgage and about to be taken away from him,
! fell on. his knees in the field in prayer. When
| he got up he sc led the pillow handles with new
! grip, gave the old mule a vigorous hex ana pc
| fore he had gone twenty feet he turned up a jug
with over $500 in gold and silver in it.
PARAMOUNT PARK, of Philadelphia contains
| Park of New York includes S34 acres, costing
| S15,0000 600 for the land and improvements. The
Chicago parks cover 1900 acres, and those of st.
| Louis about the same Prospect Park, Brook
| lyn, includes nearly 800 acres, and Druid Hill
| Park, of Baltimore, $50 acres.
LORD STowELL was eminent as judge, but
'near" as a man. In order to save the legacy
duty he, during his lifetime made over to his
| son William the eco 900 intended for him. But
the son, who died first, made will, leaving the
amount to his father who was thus obliged to
pay the duty. His lordsbip bequeathed it to Lady
| Sidmouth, and after his death the legacy was
contested
THERE are many instances extant of great
| lawyers laundering in the making of their own
wills, and there is one case where a lawyer pur-
| pOsely left his will obscure. Sergt. Maynard, an
eminent black-letter lawyer, had perplexed him
| self over some very fine points of law. He
| therefore left will wOrded in such terms
would cause litigation to arise on the poiutS he
| wished the courts to settle.
| A CONVICT in the Joliet Qll) penitentiary,
Rodney Burns, who could not either read or
write when sent there in 1880, and surprised the
| prison authorities by the zeal with which he
| wrought overtime so as to buy books to improve
| his mind, is reported insane from OverwOrk and
| overstudy. He is said TO have mastered Greek,
| Latin, French and German, after acquiring the
| common English branches.
In the last live pigeon shooting match in
| two, used assumed names, and lone of the
crack shots stated to a writer who cOmmuni-
Gates the information to the Picn-
Wtae that he would never again
| indulge In the cruel sport, and that he be-
| lieved the last match in which live pigeons
would be used had taken place in that section
AN English magazine gives a catalogue of
| valuable articles left in public vehicles by care
| less travellers, among which were a bag of jew
ery worth $3.50, and diamond tiara worth
$500 In one year a packet of bonds worth
| $4,000 was lost, another valued at 81 500, and
| also ESQ in gold. Valuable dressing-cases CON
| tanning jewelry have been found and on one
| occasion pocketboOk containing E75 in bank
notes.
GoLD-BEATER, of Soochow, China, violated
an agreement of the union to which he belonged.
| His conduct Infatuated the craft and the word
| passed round: Biting to death is not a capital
| offenSe." One hundred and twenty-three of
| them rushed on the miserable man, each taking
bite. Death soon relieved the victim of fiend-
! ish rancor. No one was allowed to quit the
| shop whose bloody lips and gums did not attest
| to his fidelity.
AN editor got into hot water with we'll
known jeweler. In his journal there had been
a story describing the chloroforming of a iews
| eler. which was afterward carried out to the
| letter. You, sir" wrote the victim under
| pretense of elevating the public mind teach
rogues how to rob u.s." To which the editor re-
| sponded: MY dear sir, if you had read my
|
! | advise you to subscribe for it. "
! SIR JOSEPH JEKyLL an excellent lawyer, left
| his fortune to pay the national debt and the
court set it aside on the ground of imbecility.
Sir Joseph said Lord Mansfield, might as
well have attempted to stop the middle arch of
| Blackfriars' bridge with his full-bottomed wig"
| Lord MauStield's will was written by himself on
| half a sheet of paper, and not in the usual
| form; but it proved valid for the disposal of
property to the amount Of 92,50O,OO0
ICELAND at best is not very Inviting country,
| but it is especially dismal Just now The crops
have failed for several consecutive years, and
many of the people are on the verge of starva-
| ton. The volcanoes have famed into unwonted
| activity, and large part of the island is buried
| beneath ashes. The population of Iceland has
been steadily decreasing for ten years, and Is
| now less than 5000 MANY of the neonIe are
| emigrating to North Dakota and Manitoba.
| They make excellent citizens.
LIE CABINET NoIR'' is the term used for the
| espionage exercised by the governments of con-
| tnental Europe over all correspondence passing
| through the post Office. The police take adyan-
| tage of the system, and through it watch is
| Kept over those 1t employs in all ranks of soci-
| ETY.. 1t is often of interest to nation to know
| the instructions of such and such foreign min
! lister, or the contents of his dispatches and
although ciphers are usually resorted to, the
| experts of the Cabinet NOir have become so
skillful that these are read with almost the same
| facility as ordinary handwriting.
| MISS ALICE DECKER of Milford. n Y has ~
| tanned a local reputation by the manner ::
which she rides a fierce young mustang pony.
! She frequently rides the little horse at a
| brealmeck pace through the streets without sad
| die or bride and nothing but her riding whip to
| guide or restrain the horse. She may be seen
| almost any day by the passengers on the trains
| toward and from CooperStown wheeling and
| racing alongside the railroad tracks going
| somewhat faster at times than the train She
| is vain of her skill and before the eyes of ms
| sengers she vaults fences and bitches without
| ceremony.
| AN INVENTION, that of an Austrian for auto
matcally lowering collins into graves without
| the aid of ropes, has been tested by the au-
| thorities of Paris. A coffin WIS placed on a
| kind of rectangular platform and surrounded
| with funeral drapery, which concealed the
| grave. When a spring pressed the plat
| form, with its lugubrious burden, descended
| slowly into the earth. The price of the appara-
tus is $50 and the inventor states that it Is used
| in Vienna and Milan, the rate payable being 6f
| for each burial, The Prefecture of the Seine
| has asked for some notifications in the ma
chinery before taking it into use.
A SYSTEM of heating railway cars by the waste
| heat from the gas lamps used for light is said
| 10 have been devised by a Glasgow man A
writer in Cdsse'fs Magazine says it is done by
means of water, a boiler being placed over the
| gas lamps, having two pipes descending from il
! and connecting with two annular tubes under
!